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Cut out the risks of Web services
News Should CIOs eschew Web services until hardened security technologies and standards arise? Standards bodies like the W3C and OASIS are working diligently toward a solution, but Web services on the Internet today are completely defenseless against...
[December 3, 2002, 13:29]
Why it can be hard to say goodbye to IE
News These include the Web Standards Project's Browse Happy site and the Mozilla Foundation's volunteer-based marketing site, Spread Firefox, which it launched alongside the preview release of Firefox 1.0.
[September 30, 2004, 15:00]
Semantic labelling scheme for Web pages
News The UK-based charity body is a member of the W3C and has been working on standards for content labelling since its inception in 1999. The new ICRA scheme can be mixed with other metadata standards, such as Dublin Core.
[July 12, 2005, 16:20]
Apple releases public beta of Safari 4
News Croll emphasised Safari 4's support for web standards such as HTML 5, which allows web applications to work while offline, and CSS 3 for adding graphical effects. Safari 4 has passed the Acid3 test developed by the Web Standards Project, while...
[February 24, 2009, 16:32]
OFT in the hunt for scammers
News Over 20 trading standards departments in the UK are taking part in a worldwide campaign that involves 53 consumer protection agencies from 21 countries. Trading standards officers will examine the sites for signs of any intent to deceive users.
[March 2, 2006, 15:40]
IBM revamps WebSphere
News The company is adopting Java and Web services standards to serve as the common software foundation and glue to link its products together. In one example of the company's strategy of building a common foundation across its software lineup, IBM on...
[November 7, 2003, 15:05]
iPhone gets NetSuite CRM and ERP apps
News NetSuite has made use of the fact that Apple has integrated support for Ajax web development standards into the iPhone. Apple claims that developers can create web applications using Web 2.0 standards that will work just as well as applications...
[July 16, 2007, 15:25]
Another massive Net attack looming?
News More important, Paller said, would be getting major e-commerce Web sites to agree to the standards, and then for them to force their partners to meet the minimum standards. The plan is to create a new non-profit or cooperative agency by December...
[August 14, 2000, 9:55]
Group aims to strengthen Web services
News What standards will drive the next wave of Web-based services, and how will they interact? The specification, which will be submitted to a standards body in a few weeks, was written by a number of companies, including Fujitsu, Hitachi, NEC, Oracle...
[January 9, 2003, 8:26]
Mozilla 1.0 unleashed on browser market
News As more and more programmers and companies are embracing Mozilla as a strategic technology, Mozilla 1.0 signals the advent of even further dissemination and adoption of open-source and standards-based software across the Web.
[June 6, 2002, 8:48]
.Net finds its voice
News An industry standards body, the SALT Forum, oversees SALT, establishing standards that ensure consistency and interoperability of the markup language. Microsoft on Wednesday released the second test version of speech development tools supporting...
[October 30, 2002, 15:08]
BEA dives into application assembly
News The components of the AquaLogic line include standards-based messaging software, formerly code-named QuickSilver; a centralized security system and Web Services management software; and AquaLogic Data, XML-based data-access software for tapping...
[June 9, 2005, 11:15]
IBM prepares to unveil new software and services
News To construct an SOA, companies write applications as an assemblage of interoperable components that communicate using industry standards, such as Web services. Many companies are using Web services standards to improve interoperability between...
[April 16, 2004, 16:15]
Standards
Talkback When browsers pervert standards or hold back on implementing them, the entire Internet community feels the effect because web developers then have less incentive to utilize these technologies to deliver a rich web experience.
[November 2, 2006, 0:23]
Web services get into the Groove
News Web services describes a set of standards and programming method for linking applications using XML. What standards will drive the next wave of Web-based services, and how will they interact? Groove Networks on Tuesday released a revamped version...
[February 4, 2003, 14:24]
Will Macromedia's Flash plans cripple the Web?
News If the Web becomes dependent on closed standards, be they Flash or RealAudio or Windows Media Player, then it becomes difficult for new browsers to be created, it becomes difficult to place the Web in embedded appliances, it becomes difficult to...
[April 2, 2002, 10:00]
Sun takes on Passport with hardware
News This is an area where Sun has a chance to establish real mind share and start driving Web services standards. Because Microsoft and IBM created nearly all the important Web services standards, particularly in business-to-business integration, the...
[March 12, 2002, 10:05]
Dell gets knuckles rapped over TV advert
News A TV ad for Dell Computer has been found to be misleading by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA). On this point the ad breached CAP (Broadcast) TV Advertising Standards Code rules 5.1 (Misleading advertising), 5.2.1 (Evidence), 5.2.3...
[August 4, 2006, 10:55]
WS-I takes on security challenge
News But despite its laudable intentions, the WS-I faces challenges -- both technical and political -- as it tries to establish itself as an influential Web services standards arbiter. The WS-I is not a typical standards organisation because it doesn't...
[February 4, 2003, 15:58]
Don't leave alternative browsers all at sea
Leader Might as well pick some Web standards and stick to them. Innovative use of existing standards, such as Ajax' use of JavaScript to hide server delays from the user, means that browsers are pointing the way to true open, platform-independent computing.
[April 26, 2005, 14:10]
